Republican senators file court brief to protect their right to break the government
"Republicans had been using and were going to continue using the filibuster to block any appointments to the NLRB and CFPB, simply because they don't think an NLRB controlled by Democrats should be allowed to function and don't want the CFPB to exist at all. Now they're objecting to President Obama taking steps to make the government work. So what we have here is 42 of 47 Republican senators—all but Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Dean Heller of Nevada, both of whom are in tough reelection battles, along with Mark Kirk of Illinois, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Olympia Snowe of Maine—who are filing a court brief to insist on their right to, as a minority, prevent government agencies from functioning. Breaking the government is their priority, and they think they should get more power."
